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** Brook: Australian

* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/BravestWarriors''. Of the four leads, Beth is Japanese, Wallow is African American, and Danny is Latino. Chris is the only white person in the main cast.

* ''PrideHigh'' has this: Mindsweeper (half black, gay), Kid Mischief (Puerto Rican, gay), Suravi (Indian, blind, lesbian), Scotch Bonnet (Scottish, bi-curious), Chip Cheetah (British), Unison (from Hong Kong), Kid Olympus (half Chinese, half Greek), Kilauea (Hawaiian), Cameron Ashton (gay), and Lightspot (gay). WordOfGod says that diversity was not the reasoning as the characters were created by different people, and his own experiences in high school were just as diverse (though the diversity of gay characters ''was'' intentional.

** ''Lost Galaxy'' had Caucasian Red, Yellow and Pinks - yes, plural Pinks - (though Yellow was a HumanAlien played by an Italian-American actress), an African-American Green and an Asian Blue.

** ''RPM'' had an African-American Red, Caucasians Blue (Scottish), Green, Black and Yellow and Asians Gold and Silver (brother and sister).
** ''Samurai'' had Caucasian Red and Yellow, African-American Blue, Latino Green, Asian Pink, and Mexican-American Gold.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': Commander Shepard's team could be seen as an in-universe version, especially in ''MassEffect2''. Excluding humans, there's only one teammate of any species per game at a time, but most species are represented on the team at some point. The characters are well-developed regardless of race, but some fit their stereotypes and some don't. Mordin fits the salarian mold: he's smart, lives at high speed, and good with technology. Garrus wonders aloud if he's bad turian: he's never been with rules and regulations, but on the other hand he's excellent in combat. Wrex is unlike almost any other Krogan you meet: he knows when to be diplomatic and when to fight, and he's good at both.
** Teams in multiplayer in ''MassEffect3'' have potential for this. Every species that Shepard can recruit can be used in multiplayer, plus Batarians, Vorcha, and Volus. [[spoiler: though the Prothean character in multiplayer is actually an awakened collector.]]

Note that in real life, people often ''do'' have ''extremely diverse backgrounds''. There really are Jewish Black Brits,[[note]]SophieOkonedo for example[[/note]] or half-Polish half-Pakistani Polish-speaking Americans,[[note]]such as Danny Pudi from Series/{{Community}}[[/note]] or even lesbian, Malaysian-born Chinese Australians.[[note]]such as Penny Wong, current Finance Minister of Australia[[/note]] It is not {{egregious}} to include such characters, as that merely reflects the diversity of the real world. When the diversity is shown in a way that is absurdly hamfisted, too stereotypical or formulaic, or ignorantly written, however, ''that'' may be a problem.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': Commander Shepard's team could be seen as an in-universe version, especially in MassEffect2. Excluding humans, there's only one teammate of any species per game at a time. The characters are well-developed regardless of race, but some fit their stereotypes and some don't. Mordin fits the salarian mold: he's smart, lives at high speed, and good with technology. Garrus wonders aloud if he's bad turian: he's never been with rules and regulations, but on the other hand he's excellent in combat. Wrex is unlike almost any other Krogan you meet: he knows when to be diplomatic and when to fight, and he's good at both.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': Commander Shepard's team could be seen as an in-universe version, especially in the sequel. There's only one of any species per game: Garrus, Mordin and Liara/Samara/Morinth, representing the three most powerful non-human species. The equivalent of token Black/Asian/Hispanic. Tali, whose species has a weak immune system is are sort of a dispossessed race of SpaceJews, and Thane, who is suffering from a debilitating lung disease and is polytheistic, could both qualify as either the religious minority or the handicapped member. And Wrex/Grunt [[spoiler: and Legion]] are both different kinds of TokenEnemyMinority: the Krograns are the old enemy now at an uneasy peace (Like, say, Russia or Germany) [[spoiler:and Legion is of the same species as the current enemy, but ideologically opposed to them (Such as an Iraqi member)]]. Just the human squadmates are this. The first game had Spanish-American and Malaysian, the second game had African-American, British, Australian, Japanese and crazy biotic test subject. Okay, maybe not that last one...

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' is the most famous ''Gundam'' example, with Heero (Japanese), Duo (American), Quatre (Middle Eastern[[hottip:*:This gets a lot of debate because Quatre is blond-haired and blue-eyed, but {{Fanon}} typically explains it as Berber heritage or simply taking after his mother.]]), Wu Fei (Chinese), and Trowa (...something[[hottip:*:Because Trowa was orphaned at a very young age, his ethnicity is vague. Even if you accept that he's Cathy Bloom's long-lost brother, that doesn't change the fact that official sources have variously labeled her Latino, Russian, and "Eastern European". All we know for certain is, he's some kind of European]]). That said, the characters' ethnicities have absolutely no impact on the plot, and no special attention is drawn to them (except for explaining why Wu Fei is an ArrogantKungFuGuy).

* ''{{Pelswick}}'' has a five-token ''family''. The title character is in a wheelchair, his father is white, his adopted sister is black, and his gran-gran is a senior citizen.

a white guy, a Hispanic, an Asian, a Native American, a black girl, and a (Caucasian) Australian girl.

* ''PowerRangers'' in most of its incarnations.
** ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' started off with two white guys, a black guy, an Asian girl and a white girl. Later added a Native American. Jason's got a bit of Irish, a bit of Japanese, a bit of Spanish, he's quite the mishmash.
** The original series gets a lot of flak because the Black Ranger was African-American and the Yellow Ranger was Asian (specifically, Vietnamese). WordOfGod from the producers and WordOfSaintPaul from the Black Ranger himself confirm this was unintentional and something they didn't notice until several episodes had been filmed, and the real reason why the Rangers were swapped is due to either budget or popularity issues. Not to mention, the Yellow Ranger was played by a Hispanic actress in the {{Pilot}}, only to be recast before the show entered full production.
** Jason was originally replaced by Rocky, who was Hispanic. And Kimberly was replaced by Kat, a (Caucasian) Australian.
** ''Zeo'' had a Native American Red, Asian Green, Hispanic Blue, African Yellow, Caucasian Pink and Caucasian (mixed race) Gold.

** ''In Space'' had Caucasians Red, Yellow, and Silver (though Red and Silver were {{HumanAlien}}s, African-American Blue, Hispanic Black, and Asian Pink.
** ''Lost Galaxy'' had Caucasian Red, Yellow and Pink (though Yellow was from another planet and played by an Italian-American actress), an African-American Green and an Asian Blue.
** Ditto for ''Lightspeed Rescue''.
** ''Time Force'' had Caucasian Red and Pink, an Asian Blue, an African-American Yellow and a space alien Green (played by an Asian). The Quantum Ranger is also Asian.

** ''SPD'' had an African-American Red, Caucasian Blue and Pink, Jewish Green, Latina Yellow, and a Dog-alien Shadow Ranger.
** ''Mystic Force'' had an Arab Red, Latina Blue and Pink, Caucasian Yellow and Green, and a Maori Solaris Knight.
** ''Operation Overdrive'' had Caucasian Red [[spoiler:an android]] and Yellow, African-Carribean Black, Asian Blue and Pink, and alien Mercury Ranger.
** ''Jungle Fury'' had Caucasian Red, Yellow, Purple (Wolf), and White (Rhino) and an Asian Blue.
** ''RPM'' had an African-American Red, Caucasians Blue, Green, Black and Yellow (female) and Asians Gold and Silver (brother and sister).
** ''Samurai'' had Caucasian Red and Yellow, African-American Blue, Latino Green, Asian Pink, and Spanish Gold.
** ''Megaforce'' had Caucasian Red, Pink, and Yellow, African-American Blue, and Indian Black.

* The "Four Ladies of Hollywood" gazebo at the western border of the Walk of Fame: Mae West (Caucasian), Dolores del Río (Latina), Dorothy Dandridge (black) and Anna May Wong (Asian), so nobody gets excluded or "offended".

* Lampshaded by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt James G. Watt]]: “I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”

* Australia's government was very much this in the early 2010s - female atheist Welsh-born Prime Minister, male Anglo-Australian Treasurer, lesbian Malaysia-born Asian-Australian Finance Minister, ethnically Polish female Attorney General, and Arab-Italian-Australian Sports Minister. (Mark Arbib has since resigned as Minister of Sport.) The government also has Australia's first Muslim MP.

* The [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] goes back and forth on this. In the current ''Justice League'' series, the team has Cyborg (African-American), TheAtom (Latina) and Element Woman (Asian-American), while the [[WestCoastTeam spin-off team]] has Comicbook/GreenLantern (Lebanese-American), Katana (Japanese), and Vibe (Mexican-American).

* The [[MarvelNOW Marvel NOW!]] relaunch of ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Mighty Avengers]]'' is another example of Marvel listening to criticism and trying to do better. The team is lead by African-American superhero LukeCage and consists of Photon and Blue Marvel (both African-American), [[Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan Superior Spider-Man]] (white), Power Man (Dominican), WhiteTiger (Puerto Rican), and [[SheHulk She-Hulk]] (white). There's also a [[LegacyCharacter new Ronin]], but their identity has yet to be revealed.

** The teen series ''GenerationX'' is a subversion. The Asian girl (Jubilee) is the class clown, the Latino (Skin) is physically the ugliest member, the redneck is the brain, the black girl (M) is the AlphaBitch, etc.

* The ''YoungAvengers'', now that their white male leader is gone, are a shining example of how Marvel are really, ''really'' trying. Patriot (black) leads an interspecies gay couple, two girls and an android. Young!Kang looked asian in the ''Young Avengers' (or at least biracial).
* The main cast of the current ''ComicBook/{{X-Factor}}'' volume has a black Algerian Muslim, a time-displaced [[TwoferTokenMinority half-black, half-Latino]] teenager, a bisexual Mexican male and a gay futuristic gladiator from another dimension.
* The [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] goes back and forth on this. As of the 2011 DC relaunch, the Justice League has TheAtom (Chinese American), Cyborg (African American), {{Firestorm}} (African American), and Element Woman (Korean American), with Vixen (African), Fire (Brazillian), August General in Iron (Chinese), and Rocket Red (Russian) in the team's [[WestCoastTeam spin-off title]]. The Justice League Dark has Zatanna (Italian American), John Constantine (English bisexual) and Madame Xanadu (bisexual).
* Lampshaded in ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] Elite'', where Sister Superior refers to the team's ethnic make-up as a "PC Nightmare". Coldcast is black, Manitou Raven and Dawn are dark-skinned Atlantean Natives, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} is Asian American, Menagerie is Latina and Naif al-Sheikh is an Arab. The only white males on the team were TheFlash, GreenArrow and Major Disaster.

* ComicBook/AvengersAcademy is arguably an example, as Reptil (the current leader of the group) is Latino, Mettle seems to be Polynesian, Hazmat is Asian-American, Finesse and Veil are women, and the only Caucasian man on the team, Striker, is a gay teenager [[spoiler:from a working class background and a survivor of sexual abuse]]. The West Coast revamp of the title introduces White Tiger (Puerto Rican), Power Man ([[TwoferTokenMinority Black Dominican ]]), Spider-Girl (Latina), Wiz Kid (Asian American), Rocket Racer (African American) and Hollow/Penance (originally Yugoslavian, retconned into being a black Alegerian, current ethnicity unknown) into the Academy. It also adds Julie Power (bisexual), and {{X-23}} to the cast.

* The Marvel event ''ComicBook/FearItself'' has Caucasian {{X-23}} and [[MarvelComics2 Thunderstrike]], [[IncredibleHercules Amadeus Cho]] (Korean-American), [[LukeCage Power Man]] (Dominican), and [[Characters/{{Spider-Man}} Spider-Girl]] (Hispanic).

* Likewise on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' the "[[FanNickname Runaways]]" are reimagined, YoungerAndHipper versions of the {{Captain Ethnic}} ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends:'' [[Comicbook/Static Virgil]] is black, [[AstralProjection Tye]] is Native American, [[TransportersAndTeleporters Eduardo]] is Hispanic and [[BlowYouAway Asami]] is Asian. In their later appearance they add [[ArmCannon Arsenal]], who is [[ArtificialLimbs disabled]] and arguably their TokenWhite. (His race is never mentioned in the series, though in the comics the character traditionally identifies as Native American.)

A Five-Token Band consists of characters from very obviously different backgrounds and ethnic groups, but rather than being assembled disparately they all [[ContrivedCoincidence happen to live]] in the [[EverytownAmerica same area]], regardless of how diverse the town should be. In school-centered shows and media, the "different backgrounds" may also include different social groups, hobbies, or cliques (ex. nerds, artists, jocks). Typically, this is designed for one of two purposes:

* Likewise on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' the "[[FanNickname Runaways]]" are reimagined, YoungerAndHipper versions of the {{Captain Ethnic}} ''[[ChallengeOfTheSuperfriends Superfriends]]:'' [[Comicbook/Static Virgil]] is black, [[AstralProjection Tye]] is Native American, [[TransportersAndTeleporters Eduardo]] is Hispanic and [[BlowYouAway Asami]] is Asian. In their later appearance they add [[ArmCannon Arsenal]], who is [[ArtificialLimbs disabled]] and arguably their TokenWhite. (His race is never mentioned in the series, though in the comics the character traditionally identifies as Native American.)

* The SmashingPumpkins started out this way, with a dark-haired white man, a redhead (before he went bald), a blonde woman and an Asian.